'Stop legislating, start gutting'
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Editor,
The following is a letter to Senator (Jon) Tester:
I received your email today and was shocked to see that you are proud of the passage of the Food Safety and Modernization Act. No, I have not read the bill. I have decided in this case to follow our "representatives" example and save the time for more pressing matters, like bribery and extortion.
I don't know where you get your news, but the sources I rely on as a free-thinking, logical person, report that it's business as usual in the Senate. When one of your own is unknowingly recorded on an open microphone stating, "It's all rigged," and you come out tooting your horn about passing the Act, I have to ask myself, "Is this person so impressed with himself and his agenda that his ends are justifying the means?"
If this is the case, you have plenty of company up on the hill.
All sarcasm aside, and with all due respect, there are a number of issues that cause concern in this legislation. The fact that politicians in Washington even contemplated that the Feds might regulate road side farmers and farmers markets along with any other "local" type small crop grower, is indicative of the government's overreach into our lives and just another example of how far we've fallen from liberty and how tyrannical the State has become. The FDA is just another example of government's ineptitude and to bestow even more power upon this agency is wasted money, unless the goal is to grow the government.
If you want to do the American public good, stop legislating and start gutting.
Autumn Parmenter
Polson
